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When privileged people (that’s most of us here) talk about poverty, we often do so in economic terms: the poverty line, the living wage, the cost of living, the unemployment rate. And to the extent that poverty is an economic phenomenon, we’re not completely off base. But poverty is also about intolerance...
...nothing whatsoever to do with poverty. While queer rights are vitally linked to issues of poverty and race, there is good reason for this misconception: the vast majority of the most visible leaders of the queer-rights movement have been wealthy, white, and male. But the fact that this phenomenon exists is itself an illustration of why poverty and race are such important problems for queer communities in America. The reason the vast majority of the most visible leaders of the queer rights movement—and the most prominent queer Americans in general—are wealthy and white...
...Many scientists have researched and worked on this phenomenon before,” Mahadevan said. “Our contribution was not original, but rather to point out certain things that are well-known already to those who know them, and not well-known to others...
Although this natural phenomenon has been explained in multiple settings already, most students still have no idea what causes cereal clumping...
...hour rule”: Walk away from the store. And if you are still thinking about how much you want it one hour later, go back and get it. Try not to be vulnerable to instant gratification—pure pleasure is only an episodic phenomenon...so don’t let such an ephemeral force feed its way too deeply into your wallet...